Improvement in hats



PATENTED JUNE '7, 1864.

P. CURTIS.

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NITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

lllILIP CURTIS, O1 AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNUR TO 'II-IMSllLF AND A. L. .iAYLEY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HATS.

sllftllltfilllllll forming part of Letters Patent No. 13,072, dated June 7, 1864.

To'all whom it may concern.-

Be itlrnowu that I, PHILIP CURTIS, of Ainesbury, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have inrenteda new and useful Improvement in Felt and Other Hats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1. is aside view of a hat illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is atop view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

To enable those skilled in the art to pracilce my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which the embossing proccssis performed.

The simplest way of performing; this is to place the hat upon or in a block or chuck of wood metal, or other material of suitable form attached to the rotating mandrel of a lathe, and to hold and press against itas it revolves with the said block or chuck, asuitable bluntpoiuted tool or instrumentcomposed of metal or other hard material, which is thus made to produce indented figures, the spaces between which are thus made to present embossed v surfaces. The instrument or tool is held against a suitable rest, and moved from one point to another on the surface of the hat as required. This process is performed after the but would ordinarily be considered finished.

in the drawings the. dark circles or figures A A represent, the indentations produced by the friction and pressure of theme], and the intervening portions represent the embossed surfaces. Coloring materials maybe supplied at the point of the tool in any suitable manner to give any suitable color to the indented lines or figures. 'lhc embossing might also be performed while the hat is upon a stationary block or form by moving the indenting tool or instrument over the surface by hand or other suitable means. The block maybe either plain or grooved, according to the character of the figures it is intended to produce upon the hat. i

I am aware of the analogy of the process described to that often practiced by turners in bnrnishing and staining the products of the lathe, and to the mode in which similar efl'ects are produced in the manufacture of earthenware. I therefore do not claim the process nor the agencies for accomplishing the eii'ect described; but,believing that I have achieved a new improvement in hats by the adaptation and application of a process hitherto unknown in their manufacture, and which, in enhancing thecoineliness of a manufacture by means more effective and economical than has heretofore been practiced or known,

A. hat finished substantially as described.

PHlLllC-URTIS.

Witnesses: I

DANIEL WEBSTER, HORACE L. BAYLEY. 

